Studz

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Studz was inspired by ornamental lettering from an 8th-century manuscript, to which Michael Harvey, British type designer, has given a “riveting” contemporary flair. The name suggests studded leather.

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ITC Stone Serif font Engravers LH font

Engravers LH

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Linotype’s Engravers Bold Face—with its wide set, extreme contrast, and sharp serifs—is instantly recognizable as a turn-of-the-century American business typeface. It is based on a typeface designed for the American…

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Sassafras font

Sassafras

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Arthur Baker's display script Sassafras, designed in 1995, is based on the natural inline effect created when writing with a split-metal nibbed pen. Black and white are nicely balanced, giving…

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Shuriken Boy font

Shuriken Boy

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A few years ago when Joachim Müller-Lancé was doodling shapes on paper, he made the following observation: “My sketches revealed how letterforms can be perceived not only as black strokes…

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Gothic 13 font

Gothic 13

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Gothic 13 is a bold condensed sans serif typeface. Originally designed in small sizes, Gothic 13 is very similar to Modern Gothic Condensed, which was a turn-of-the-century modernization of a…

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ITC Serif Gothic font

ITC Serif Gothic

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In 1972, Herb Lubalin and Tony DeSpigna designed this typeface for the International Typeface Corporation. ITC Serif Gothic combines the readability of serif (roman) faces with the simplicity of a…

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Cutout

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Matisse's paper cutouts inspired Gail Blumberg, Adobe art director, to create a typeface of figures. Her biggest challenge: keeping each Cutout design in scale. It's not easy to make a…

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Sanvito Pro font

Sanvito Pro

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Sanvito is an upright script typeface designed by Robert Slimbach in 1993. Named after one of the principal scribes of the Italian Renaissance, Sanvito is based on the highly practical…

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